What should He work for ?" "If everybody works that is good and old enough, then I think God must work," answered Willie.

"But I will ask my papa.

Am I old enough ?" "Well, you're not old enough to do much, but you might do something." "What could I do?
Could I spin, Mrs Wilson ?" "No, child; that's not an easy thing to do; but you could knit." "Could I?
What good would it do ?" "Why, you could knit your mother a pair of stockings." "Could I though?
Will you teach me, Mrs Wilson ?" Mrs Wilson very readily promised, foreseeing that so she might have a good deal more of the little man's company, if indeed he was in earnest; for she was very lonely, and was never so happy as when he was with her.

She said she would get him some knitting-needles--wires she called them--that very evening; she had some wool, and if he came to-morrow, she would soon see whether he was old enough and clever enough to learn to knit.

She advised him, however, to say nothing about it to his mother till she had made up her mind whether or not he could learn; for if he could, then he might surprise her by taking her something of his own knitting--at least a pair of muffetees to keep her wrists warm in the winter.